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Rick Ottolini wrote:

> In article <Forum.889670863.31481.matt@mattsbox.pumatech.com> mnichols@pumatech.snip.this.com writes:
> >       Moreover, health care is not driven by direct market forces;
> >       it's driven by forces filtered by insurance companies. Medical
> >       insurance is the primary reason we have such high medical
> >       costs - health care pricing isn't determined by what the people
> >       as a market can bear, but rather what the insurance industry
> >       as a market can bear. Since insurance simply passes off the
> >       high costs (plus some added profit) to the consumers in the
>
> As long as the government subsidizes health insurance, i.e. not taxing
> it, you'll see certain kinds of socialized distortions.
> But is this bad?  Government subsidy makes more health care more widely
> available, but again at certain costs.
>

I've never bought that argument.  Taxation is a penalty.  Non taxation is not a benefit or subsidy, it's
a lack of a penalty,  Non-taxation on benefits is the government butting the hell out of your private
affairs.

                                    -Clay


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